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The Canberra Times has news of 20-year-old Jonathan Kennewell, of Spence, whose 4WD vehicle smashed head-on into another car on the wrong side of Kingsford Smith Drive.

With no prior convictions 30 months in the pokey might seem harsh. But knowing he shouldn’t be mixing booze with his meds and then choosing to drink and then choosing to drink I guess he’d already run out of second chances.

And so he should get a full time stint. People try to pull anything so that they don’t have to take responsibility for thier own actions. Oh dear the alcohol made me do it – stuff him, he chose to drink and then chose to drive.

I think you might have had a bit to dirnk, a bit to dirnk yourself when you wrote this one John. Is there any penalty for operating a web site under the influence of alcohol?

I heard a story recently about a local man whose plea of guilty for a dui was rejected by the magistrate because there is a legal/technical problem with the breath analysers in use at the moment. Anyone heard more?

I know someone who’s up for a court appearance soon after getting pulled over with ~0.08, and he’s seriously intending to argue that he should be let off because his medication counteracts the alcohol. Might be an idea to send him this story…